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Those who persecute, to overturn religion, can scarcely pretend to more philosophy, or more liberality, than those who persecute to support it[.]

My dear Belinda, if you will not quarrel with the quality, you may have what quantity of praise you please.

["]They say it's not harmful to human beings."
If someone from the Health Department had said so, I supposed it was all right.

Imposed peace is not peace.

I wonder if Alexievich read this before she wrote 'Voices from Chernobyl'.

Landed an interview for a library internship in a couple of weeks. Fingers crossed.

On average, it took Daanish twenty minutes to read each article. On average, the air raids killed twenty-five hundred Iraqis daily. Approximately thirty would lose their lives by the time he'd finished reading how much they hate us.

Can we grasp in friendship the hand raised to strike us?

I'm sooo glad I ignore ratings because so far, this is amazing.

It's rather thrilling to be starting something with so little presence on GR. The book jacket is missing, but this is otherwise a very solid copy with enjoyably vivid illustrations.

She was an atheist, she equated his religion with fanaticism, she could not explain the origins of the name of her home state, Massachusetts, but she really understood those [American] Indians.

Jennet was one of those persons, abounding in every class of life, whose virtues are most conspicuous in "damning sins they are not inclined to."

Say goodbye to the Goodreads Feedback group, everyone. The Powers That Be have decided that an open forum of democratic commenting and critiquing isn't worth being called out for pulling obtusely money grubbing stunts and discontinuing the truly helpful parts of GR: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Sow all the words you can

For in a better age

Men shall judge the harvest

By its intrinsic worth.

I'm reading four books from four different centuries right now, which is kinda cool.

[H]e surely may walk straight who hath nothing to draw him aside.

Obsessed as ever with its greatness, the seat of power had seen fit to deprive civil servants of their daily bread but not to appear in the eyes of the world as the persecutor of famous writers.

Say goodbye to around a fifth of my library. I'm off to Half Price Books:

On my way to the finish line.

You have penis envy.
They have humanity envy.

...Morality yes, but sewers first.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

True political action must necessarily contain an implicit moral evaluation of itself. (Sartre, Le Fantôme de Staline)

["]Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young."
Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life.["]

[W]ith prosperity, we returned once more to hierarchies, distances, barriers.

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The introduction for this edition reads like it was written by someone who composes SparkNotes summaries for a living and is obsessed with dick jokes.

What good is happiness if it not only does not bring me truth, but even hides it from me?

History has failed us, but no matter.

[E]xperience means nothing till it repeats itself.